Announcing... Rah Rah Girls!

It's Here, RAH RAH GIRLS!!!

If you're interested in any name signs, hair bows, bow holders & more for your little ones or for gifts, check out my ETSY site, I'd love to make something for you!

RahRahGirls

If you order, mention my blog in your message at checkout and I'll throw in a surprise hair bow!

I will be updating here at the blog when new things become available!!

Oops....Catching up...

First of all....welcome baby Madelyn Grace Becker!!!!

She was born October 28th at 9:02 pm weighing in at 8 lbs, 3 oz and 19.5" long.

Congrats, Becker Family!!

We headed over to Templeton right away to join in on the action...so nice for Kiara to see Nana and Papa and aunt and uncle and cousins!!

Casey's parents recently celebrated their 40th anniversary with a cruise to Europe.  Congrats!!

What would a trip to SLO be without a little High Street Deli?

Oh yeah I promised you a picture of the legwarmers....

Here are some pics from our trip to the pumpkin patch!  We had sooo much fun parading around with our little girl.  We can't wait until she's running around picking out her own pumpkin!

She's so tiny!

You know me and Casey hit up the super slide before we left...I'm not sure we really are adults yet.

John & Stef Umscheid brought Jaxton over for dinner...he is such a doll!!

Kiara turned 4 months old...we had to hold her in place to keep her from...

doing this.

4 month highlights!

• You are in size 2 diapers
• Still in 3 month clothes
• Becoming quite the little princess.  You have upped the ante on the non-napping.  Ahhh.
• Teething teething teething!
• Rolling all over the place
• Digging those toes in, trying to crawl!
• Getting close to sitting up!
• 13 1/2 lbs, 24" long, 16" head circ!  Growing growing growing!!
• Laughing and smiling more and more
• Showing us more of your personality...you are one SPUNKY kid!
• Still sleeping well at night!
• Still only on momma's milk!

She is SUCH a sweetie and we are so so blessed to have her!

So in other news, last Monday I had a root canal, Tuesday Casey badly sprained his ankle and was in the ER all night and now on crutches, Wednesday Jenny had her baby and we headed over to the coast...so Saturday we were just pooped.  Needless to say, Halloween passed us by this year so we unfortunately did not get Kiara in her butterfly costume.  We will have to wait until next year!!

IN OTHER NEWS....I have an announcement to make!  

I am opening my own ETSY store to sell my name signs, bow holders, hair bows, and all that good stuff.  I will post the link once I'm up and running in the next couple weeks but keep me in mind for your holiday shopping!!!!

Take care!!  I'll be catching up with more soon!

Holla!

Stuff has been going on but I don't have too many new pictures to prove it- I was telling Casey that we need to just leave our camera out so that we always remember to take pics.

On Sunday my mom, my sister and I took a girls trip with Kiara and Miley to San Luis Obispo to do a little shopping, both girls needed some winter clothes so we did our little quarterly trip to the Carter's outlet in Pismo.  Carters is my favorite.  The clothes are so cute and wash so well, and the sizing seems easier to figure out than with other places.  I have so many cute things from my sister in law from her daughter but I didn't have cold-weather clothes for the 3-6 month period and the weather is really starting to cool down!  Well, I spent double what I budgeted so I guess I did pretty well.  Ha!  At least Kiara is looking fab here at home.  My favorite purchase?  Legwarmers.  Goodness gracious.  I'll try to get them on her today and post some pictures but these things are just too precious!  

By the way....if you go to carters.com and sign up for their little club or newsletter or whatever it is, you will get coupons from them constantly.  Most of the time it is for 20% of $50 or more, but sometimes it is even better.  They will also send you coupons from osh kosh and sometimes gymboree.  This is great because whenever I go shopping there, I always have a coupon!  

Thanks girls for your recipe ideas, I'll have to check out tastebook.com Shannon that looked pretty good...my sister in law Michelle uses binders with the plastic sleeves like Leah suggested and that is super practical and neat so I may start there.  The thought that I would have a free day to type up all my recipes makes me laugh but I guess you never know!?  Maybe Kiara will get a wild hair and decide to take a long nap one day??  

I did a little photo shoot with Kiara...I plan to take them into Photoshop and make them all fancy but here is some raw footage for now...and check out the ultimate cuteness of her sleeping on her daddy after a long day in SLO!!

Need some ideas?

My recipes are a jumbled mess.  I have one binder full of scribbled notes, magazine articles, and craziness.  I really want to get it all nicely organized since I do a lot of cooking and am wondering if anyone out there has any good ideas on an organizer/system?  (PS my binder is hilarious.  It used to be this beautiful binder Casey's mom got me but then I accidentally set it on a hot burner so now it has a huge black burner imprint on the front.  I feel that the way my binder looks is very indicative of my cooking skills...it looks the way my brain thinks...all over the place.  Ha!)

I suppose I could make some cute little pages and type up the recipes but that would require being a girl who does not have a 3 month old.

Kiara is doing great, rolled from back to tummy today...goodness gracious I better watch out, she'll be crawling before I know it!!  She's also sucking her thumb....not sure how I feel about it but I have gotten 3 GREAT night's sleep where she hasn't made a peep cuz she just sticks that thumb in there!  She won't take a paci sooo...I guess it's okay for now (how would you make a 3 month old stop anyways? Haha)

3 Posts! Charger Game...

First game of the season with a narrow win by the Bolts...YEeeeeAAh!  We got to watch the first game on our new high def flatscreen whoo hoo!!  Casey also won both of his fantasy games and took his Section A exam for his license so hooray for a great day!  Kiara loves to watch the game with Daddy!!

3 Months!

Kiara, you turned 3 months old yesterday!!  Here's what you're up to these days!!

• You're ROLLING!!  Not just to your side, but from your tummy all the way over to your back. I believe this is a 5 month milestone.  You had it conquered at 11 weeks, and you can do it to your left and your right sides.  This is very fun but makes mommy nervous as I think you may be an early mover.  I like you just fine in one spot!!  But I'll take it...big girl! These are from my phone so the quality is probably stinky.

• You're LAUGHING!!  Mommy was having a crazy day and you started talking to me so cute, so I decided to video you and send it to daddy.  Well, as soon as I pressed record...THIS happened.....!!
  

• You're still figuring out the whole laugh thing but every now and then you will just laugh randomly!  When we went to visit Grammie last weekend you saw her and just started busting up, and during the Charger game last night daddy was holding you on his knee and you just started laughing again!
• You like to look at yourself in the mirror now.  You make yourself smile and laugh.  It is veeeery cute!
• You can grab thing now.  Especially your dress to stick in your mouth and chew on.
• No tooth yet but it's definitely coming.  You have your fussy days where you just can't get enough of chomping on your hand.
• You found your feet!  You love to grab them but they haven't made it to your mouth just yet!
• I must mention that you rolled over, found your feet, and had your first giggle all in one day.  It was very adventurous!
• You're still in 3 month clothes but the bottoms are still big on  your tiny little waist.
• You're still in size 1 diapers.
• You have very tiny feet.
• Your hair is getting long and the new growth is a lighter brown...we'll see!  I love the way it sticks up no matter what I do.  It is the Kate Gosselin look.
• Your eyes are still blue but have a few spots of color coming in...think they'll still be blue though, again...we'll see!!
• You take 6-7 feedings a day (7 since you're on your 3 month spurt now).  
• You still sleep all night but you do not like to take long naps during the day.  You're a chronic 30 minute napper and that's all there is to it!!
• You are so smiley and happy and you are the joy of me and your daddy's lives.  We're crazy about you!!!!!!

Shaver Lake & Beckers Visit!

Friday before last we decided to head to Shaver Lake for the day to do a little hiking!  The hiking didn't work out too well...the BOB stroller was a little to big for the tiny little trail we were on that was covered in poison oak and Kiara was none too thrilled!  But we got out anyway and enjoyed some fresh mountain air!

Casey was concerned about how he'd look with the Baby Bjorn but I thought it was adorable! Hahaha!

My 2 favorite people!

Then that Sunday the Beckers came for a visit!!  Jenny is about 34 weeks now I think and she looks amaaaazing!  We can't wait for baby #3 to arrive!

We hung out by the pool for a while..

I love this photo of Connor.

Kelsey June in all her glory

Mama-to-be with my baby girl

Cousin Love

Had a great time!